Leaps in Finance

My first interaction with Vipul Vadhiya was when he was in his final year of engineering at VIT. He joined the Bulls Eye CAT program. I soon realised that our Gujarati friend was probably earning more than I was. After college got over, Vipul, and his friends, Amit and Shiv, would take Science classes in … Read more

Rolls Rocker

Sukhpreet Singh Sial is Chetan Pal’s friend. Both have their factories in the Ramtekdi area. Roll Mania has its office about 200 m from our home on SB road.  Prasanna and Yours Truly dropped in for a chat on Sat, 9-Nov-24. My first roll was consumed during my Calcutta days – I think my favourite … Read more

Ecology Expert

Arvind ji and yours truly attended the first VD Vartak Memorial lecture organised by the Botany department of Pune University on 25 Nov 2024. The speaker was Dr Madhav Gadgil. I have been a big fan of Gadgil ji – and the opportunity to hear him live was too good to pass. Madhav ji started … Read more

Parenting Orphans

We cycled to Talegaon to visit https://www.theajitfoundation.in – Through Abhay P, CEEPL has been supporting them for the last two years. Met with Vinaya Nimbalkar, who looks after the Pune center. She and Mahesh, her better half, started this foundation about 20 years ago. They have had more than 4,000 students who have benefitted from … Read more

How Amsterdam got its cycle tracks

426 words One morning in October of 1971, a six-year-old girl named Simone Langenhoff was riding her bike down a road in the southern Netherlands. Suddenly, a careless driver whipped around a blind corner and crashed into her. In an instant, Simone became one of some 450 children killed by automobiles in the Netherlands that … Read more

Right to Repair – Part 2

676 words Manufacturers argued that their restrictions were necessary to safeguard trade secrets and to protect people from hurting themselves by messing with their machines. “Apple told Nebraska lawmakers that the bill would turn the state into a ‘Mecca for bad actors,’ predicting that hackers and other nefarious figures would flock to the state to … Read more